> bikers aren't routinely failing to yield to pedestrians
I didn't say that, I think it is true. That said, I also think pedestrians sometimes have an expectation that a biker would yield in a place where they wouldn't even try with a car (ie. crossing the road between two vehicles into the bike lane).
This is what you said, and what I am responding to.
Also, I would suggest that deaths from drivers are probably only higher because the probability of a collision being fatal is a lot higher when one party in the collision is 2 tons, and that the fatality rate is not a good proxy for the rate of total accidents (even the rate of total accidents where someone ends up in a hospital). I have not seen a credible measurement for that, but I would expect from what I have seen in my 6 years living in Manhattan is that the accident rate with bikes is a lot higher than it is with cars, and that so is the rate of injuries. As a pedestrian, my chance of getting killed in a traffic accident are so astronomically low that I actually care a lot more about my probability of being injured than my probability of being killed.
Are they really? You have a higher chance of being killed by a car while you are inside a building, than you are of being killed by a cyclist.
Also, I'm not concerned about getting killed by a cyclist. I'm concerned about getting hit by one. Those are not the same thing.
https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nycdot-pedestrian...
There are ~300 pedestrian injuries caused by bikes every year vs 10,000 caused by cars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/nyregion/elderly-pedestri...
Your feelings about bikes are in direct contradiction with the data.
What matters is the chance of getting hit at all. I still have not seen a credible study about causes of accidents involving an injured pedestrian.
Like I said again, I have yet to see a credible study counting non-fatal injuries from bikes in the city. Someone could do this, for example, by randomly sampling ER patients to see how many were involved in bicycle-pedestrian crashes, but nobody has.
Also, that NYT article is almost a pro-bike op-ed in its tone, and I would suggest finding sources that at least sound a little more neutral on your issues of choice.
The drivers in NYC are comparatively safe. They drive relatively slowly (compared to other parts of the country), pay attention to pedestrians, and obey traffic lights and signs.